I bought one for my partner who has a HUGE spier phobia and being disturbed I always had to do the glass and card thing (sensitive sole that I am), It didn't work and the reaction was 65cm (or 2 foot) distance was ARE YOU MAD, NO WAY. I'm now looking for a company that can supply the same device with at least a 1000ft pole and remote control that can be operated from a parallel universe (or at least the roof). (And as he's a Dr Who fan - the ideal would be a Dalek on the end that was genetically designed to exterminate anything with 8 legs).

Grand Deducer Watson of Sherlock. NoName, no pack drill. Astral zone changed five times a day (flexible). Great at manifesting parking spaces by thought control. Hatred of terminology of survivors and commitment to win-win reality.

I usually just pick up the spiders with my hands.....then occasionally i get one as big as my hand....and well, i pick them up too......i live in the woods so spiders are so common, they dont even bother my mom, she just says they are there, maybe point them out.

I found that you could just use those insect catching things they sell for lil' kids. I don't have a link that has a picture of one, but they are great for catching spiders around the house.
I'm not sure how to explain it, but if you see an insect catcher that looks cheap, big and plastic...that's probably it.

We just catch 'em in a foam cup - they seem to be attracted to white for some reason - and put them out (or if it's too cold, down in the cellar, so they can eat the crickets). Out here in the country we try to accommodate our predators

A glass and an envelope do the trick for me (I have many attractive red envelopes from the credit card companies, and I am never without a glass). Put the glass over the pesky arachnid, slide the envelope under the glass, carry the whole lot outside and post it through your neighbour's letterbox. The job's a good 'un.

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks."To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln."If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.

I've resorted to the glass and envelope (or other sturdy piece of paper) method myself a few times. The exception was the one spider I found living behind the dryer once. It was big enough to frighten the dog...

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. -Lazarus Long

I'm in the mountainous region of Virginia, in a really narrow section of the Shenandoah Valley. And this spider was HUGE. There was a toy spider available about that time called "Big Bob", so that was the name I gave it in my own mind. I don't know where it came from, and I don't know where it went, but I tried real hard not to bother it whenever I did my laundry. I didn't think they got that big up here, but I after that, I now know it's possible.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. -Lazarus Long